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(The President then, delivering the Medal to the Foreign Secretary, addressed 



him in the following terms): 



Dr Huggins In transmitting this Medal to M. Le Verrier, you will 

 express to him the interest with which we have followed his unwearied 

 researches, and the admiration which we feel for the skill and perseverance 

 by which he has succeeded in binding all the principal planets of our system, 

 from Mercury to Neptune, in the chains of his Analysis. You can tell him 

 how sorry we are not to see him among us on the present occasion, and 

 how glad we shall be to welcome him if he is able to visit us later in the 

 session. We hope that he will then have finished the printing of his "Tables 

 of Saturn " and his " Theory of Neptune" and thus be able to rest awhile 

 and re-establish his health shaken, we fear, by his too arduous labours 

 until he goes forth again, with fresh vigour, to win new triumphs in the 

 fields of Physical Astronomy. 



